More Octopus

I added some orange to the octopus And really like how it turned out!



When I added the dark blue it looked pretty good, but in this photo I can see more of the unevenness of the water color. I'm wondering if maybe I should have used acrylic instead.





I like how it is so far, I think when the rocket is painted it will be even better.

octopus drawing

Finally doing something art again. drew this octopus on a blue water color wash. I have to play around a bit before i color it so i don't screw it up, but i'm thinking an orange spots on the octopus mayby? and a little space man with a lazer gun will go nicely as well.

beartato

I found my new favourite comic strip over at www.nedroid.com. Go there, seriously it is the best comic ever! so good in fact, I decided to make my own t-shirt. check it out!




That's Beartato of course! made with a screenprinting kit my art teacher gave me.

tyler in illustrator (w.i.p.)

So for some reason I decided to paint Tyler in Illustrator. I'm not sure why. just to see if I could do it?

Well, I've been working for several hours and here is what I have so far. I know, I can see those places too! I'm not finished. I just thought you might want to see. So, here you go.

doodle zine

The other day I learned how to make an 8 page zine out of one piece of paper. It's so cool! apparently my wife knew how to do this when she was like 7. Thanks addie for sharing this awesome cool project with me.

She made it up to me though by bringing me a book on making books called "How to Make Books" by Esther K. Smith. It is pretty neat, and makes me wish I were a much craftier person.

Anyway, I've been meaning to do a free doodle book thing ever since I saw these instant books and have finally gotten around to doing it. But stupid me used paper that was too big for my scanner to scan the whole thing and print a whole lot of little books.

Oh well, here is what I have this time.

This is the cover. Front is on the right side of the image, back is on the left. Yeah, it wraps around... I know, awesome cover design.



First and second page. Yes, second page is mostly blank. whatever.

3rd and 4th, and all of a sudden it's kind of sequential.


5th and 6th.

was gonna put something about me sucking at the harmonica on the last page... but then I remembered that my moon base totally kicks ass!

So the first page doesn't fit at all, but hey! it's a free doodle book! Why are your expectations set so high?!

damn critics!

illustrator stamp

This project was dumb. Who makes a stamp in illustrator? apparently Mr Cooper thinks illustrator students should! Oh and, no live trace. bah! stupid Cooper!



I also never realized how dumb out mascot looks until I drew it in illustrator.

Robot witha rocket

Here's another Illustrator robot that I did. This was for a "do whatever you want" project and was the first time I used the gradient mesh too. I think i'm starting to like the mesh tool better, I figured out more things about the mesh tool after I finished this...


So there you go, a robot playing with a rocket. Super fun, nice and innocent. But then a friend suggested that i should make the background a wall of bodies; assuring me that a wall of bodies makes any illustration better, and it would be easy to do with the stamp sprayer.


Well the wall of bodies didn't work out, but one body looked okay in a dark humor kind of way. Also the robot's grin takes on a goofy "To Kill a Mockingbird" look.


Except instead of a mockingbird, the (can a robot be mentally ill?) robot killed this person and it would appear that he stole that toy rocket.

This is why I ask Brian if a fear of robots is really irrational?

Timothy

Here is an illustration I did for class, suppose to be for the children's book Timothy and the Strong Pajamas by Viviane Schwarz. This is the front cover.

robot nighthawk

Since I've been on this robot thing, I had this idea to paint robots in the style of different famous paintings. I think the original idea was to paint pictures that showed robots creating something, but that idea got morphed into this. I doubt I'll do many more of these, but I had time the other day and water-colored this image of Edward Hopper's "Night Hawks".



I think the waiter looks like a robot, but the other two are not obviously robots. For this I apologize and am slightly frustrated. Anyway, hooray for robots! and hooray for NightHawks!

More illustrations are on there way. Sorry it's been so long, but I have at least two more pictures ready so expect something great tomorrow!

Timmy and the Croc

Another Image done in illustrator. This was for the final, I had to illustrate a story of a kid name Timmy who's pajamas had magical patches that gave him super powers! One of his super hero feats was that he drug an alligator back to the zoo. I don't think this alligator looks like he's being dragged anywhere, It kind of looks separate from the boy running...

Maybe I'll pass...